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Government’s National Security Arm Took Charge During the Covid Response

Debbie Lerman / November 3, 2022 / Government, Policy, Public Health / 11 minute read

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HHS – the agency designated by statute and experience to handle public health crises – was removed, and FEMA – the agency designated by statute and experience to “help people before, during and after disasters” like earthquakes and fires – was put in charge. But the pandemic planning document was not updated to reflect that change or how that change would affect the Covid response.

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The Book We Need and Only Justin Hart Could Write

Jeffrey A. Tucker / October 31, 2022 / History, Policy / 7 minute read

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Hart is one of the few intellectuals who was correct about the whole hullabaloo from the very beginning. Therefore he doesn’t need to embark among some silly dance in which restrictions were fine in the beginning but later became too much. Nope: he kept his wits about him the whole time. Thus does he have the credibility to write without apologies.

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Where’s BioNTech? The EU Parliament’s “Pfizer Hearing” Farce

Robert Kogon / October 29, 2022 / Policy, Vaccines / 10 minute read

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The problem is not corruption. It is rather a flagrant conflict of interest that was built into the EU’s authorization and procurement process right from the start, but that remains invisible so long as BioNTech is ignored. This is presumably why the company was persona non grata at the hearing of the EU Parliament’s committee on Covid: officially known as the COVI (sic) Committee.

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Preferred Pronouns Lit the Path to Covid Science Denialism

Ramesh Thakur / October 26, 2022 / Policy, Society / 14 minute read

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The idea behind the move to preferred pronouns is that everyone’s own conception of their gender identity deserves the protection of law. The unintended and perverse yet entirely predictable consequence is that the wilful suspension of biological reality with pretend facts is a threat to women.

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A Closer Look at the Covid Mortality Rate

Ian Miller / October 23, 2022 / Censorship, Economics, Policy, Public Health / 7 minute read

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Economic destruction, increased suicide attempts due to seemingly indefinite isolation, horrifying levels of learning loss, increasing obesity amongst kids, plummeting test scores, increased poverty and hunger, supply chain problems, rampant inflation; all of it is a direct result of policies imposed by terrified, incompetent “experts.”

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But Will Elections Change Anything?

Jeffrey A. Tucker / October 20, 2022 / Policy, Society / 6 minute read

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In the end, what’s more powerful than political changes and even election upheavals, which too often fail through subversion, are dramatic shifts in public opinion. Every institution ultimately bends to that, which is why research, education, great journalism, and competent media outlets, plus friendship networks and community organizing, might actually be more foundational than elections. All of this has begun and it is growing. Therein lies the real hope.

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Jeremy Hunt, Britain’s New Chancellor of the Exchequer, Strongly Backed Zero Covid and Lockdowns

Michael Senger / October 18, 2022 / Policy / 3 minute read

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Part of the reason Hunt’s 2022 bid imploded is that testimony and video surfaced of his praising China’s draconian “Zero Covid” and quarantine measures and advocating for the UK to emulate them. Hunt had likewise been a vocal proponent of lockdowns and vaccine mandates.

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How College Mandates Shattered My Dreams

Phoebe Liou / October 17, 2022 / Education, Policy, Vaccines / 10 minute read

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When I was canceled from UConn, I was in the middle of writing a neurosurgery research journal article and my participation was abruptly stopped. I was planning to study abroad in my junior year, which would have been this year. I looked forward to entering dental school and eventually opening a dental practice. I made a choice for my body – and my college life was interrupted indefinitely.

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Et Tu, PayPal? The EU’s Role in Defunding Dissent

Robert Kogon / October 15, 2022 / Economics, Policy / 6 minute read

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Could the EU’s Code of Practice on Disinformation and its Digital Services Act (DSA) have something to do with PayPal’s skittish forays into “combatting disinformation?” Well, yes, they could, and you may rest assured that EU officials or representatives have already had a word with PayPal about them.

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Why Your Mask Came from China

Jeffrey A. Tucker / October 14, 2022 / History, Policy / 8 minute read

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There is a strange way in which US lockdowns and disease panic miraculously healed the US/China trade rift that had been developing for the two years prior. Most “personal protective equipment” and especially masks used during the lockdown period in the US was imported from China in a deal between Trump and Xi, brokered by Trump’s son-in-law. Trade recovered, beginning with pandemic-related goods.

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Cultural Differences Between Scandinavia and the US Could Account for Pandemic Approaches

Steve Templeton / October 12, 2022 / Policy, Public Health / 21 minute read

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They’ve apologized for killing the mink, which is another interesting thing about Denmark, the apologies. Which I love, even though it’s a little bitter, because like a lot of these things they should have known from the beginning. They also apologized for the child vaccinations by saying, “you know, we were wrong.” Well, they said it, and I think that’s part of the reason trust is so high in Scandinavia, it’s like a partnership between public health and the people. ~ Tracy Beth Hoeg

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What is Populism?

Daniel Klein / October 11, 2022 / Economics, Policy / 6 minute read

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Political discourse abounds with waywardness in word usage. It’s something you do not want to fall into. Falling into it has two sides, passive and active. The passive vice is going along with the wayward word usage in the discourse you read or listen to. The active vice is discoursing waywardly yourself. Try to be neither sap nor perp of word waywardness.

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